Britain's Chinese Eye : Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Title:
Britain's Chinese Eye : Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Author:
Chang, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9780804775878
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Table of Figures -- Introduction -- ONE - Garden -- Sir William Chambers and the Dissertation on Oriental Gardening -- The Macartney, Mission of 1793 and the Qing Imperial Gardens -- Robert Fortune as Horticultural Spy in Racial Disguise -- TWO - Plate -- Romantic Satires on Blue and White China -- The Willow Pattern and George Meredith's The Egoist -- Whistler and Rossetti as Collectors of Blue and White Porcelain -- THREE - Display Case and Den -- Exhibiting China in Victorian London -- Display Cases and Opium Dens in The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Edwin Drood's Inheritors -- FOUR - Photograph -- Felice Beato and the Second Opium War -- Through China with John Thomson's Camera -- "A Truthful Impression of the Country": Isabella Bird -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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